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	Automotive: $50 Paint Job

rainfever

7-5-2007 5:03 PM

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paint, automotive, car, auto, autobody, inexpensive, guide, how-to, instruction

rainfever says:

I found this on www.autoblog.com > who found it on http://www.jalopyjournal.com/?p=984 > who found it on http://www.rickwrench.com/50dollarpaint.html (which is where the guide is) > which pulled it from these forums http://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=2331682&page=0&fpart=1&vc=1

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I figured since the Corvair is not in line to be professionally painted, I'd give it a try.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.rickwrench.com/50dollarpaint.html"><P align="center">Three quarts of gloss white. I thinned 50/50 with mineral spirits. The can says to use acetone, but the folks on the moparts forum had problems with the paint flashing too fast using it as a thinning medium. Mineral spirits seemed to work just fine for me and, when thinned, the paint self-leveled to completely smooth after a few minutes.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.rickwrench.com/50dollarpaint.html"><P align="center">Thin is the key. <EM><STRONG>Thin</STRONG></EM>. Not thick. Like milk. If your bubbles don't pop, it's too thick. Un-thinned Rustoleum will take several <STRONG>months</STRONG> of hot dry weather to dry. You won't be able to sand it until it's dry. A 50/50 mix dries completely in 5-6 hours of warm weather.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.rickwrench.com/50dollarpaint.html"><P align="center">Below: the "BEFORE" shot.
<SPAN class="style5">For more on the Corvair's body prep, go to: <A href="http://www.rickwrench.com/corvairbodywork.html">The Corvair bodywork page.</A></SPAN></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.rickwrench.com/50dollarpaint.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.rickwrench.com/img/AC6A6851-EB4E-4219-97F1-0519DCE3690B" alt="corvair" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.rickwrench.com/50dollarpaint.html"><P align="center">I started putting the car back together after the polishing was done.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.rickwrench.com/50dollarpaint.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.rickwrench.com/img/FE8BFD73-E895-45F2-B0DE-1867B080571D" alt="" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F624C9DB-C6FE-4CF6-A4A6-90B5B9FB34E0/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>